So I'm at work with Chris and we're helping the small handfuls of customers coming through the front door. Working at a paint store is complicated, especially Sherwin-Williams, and let me explain why. People have no idea what the hell they're looking for *and* don't want to take the time to research and/or listen to what we're saying. On a side note, just for clarification, no employees that work at the Sherwin-Williams Company Paint Stores get any sort of commission! We get nothing from selling you something that is more expensive and we get nothing for adding anything to your order. We recommend what as recommend because we believe it's the best product for what you're working on. With that said... please don't "ask Sherwin-Williams" where babies comrade from, if your breath stinks, if people like you, and anything else that our clever, clever marketers thought was funny to advertise! We are here for you and your painting needs and if you think we may have heard it before, we probably have.
Now... asking us for help with colors, product advice, explanations on how to do your project thoroughly and correctly is completely understandable AND wanted. I just thought I would pass this information along because I'm tired of being asked a question and then being bitched at because of my answer.
Next subject...
School is going great! Drew and I started Spanish yesterday and while we both honestly have no desire to actually be in the classes, he is going to graduate soon and that's all that matters to me! My biology class is exciting and my algebra class makes me want to cry a little bit, but math is math and the teacher is surprisingly nice.
Yay for being a med student!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
America is amazing, now get out!
For anyone who happens to come to this page and read what I have to say, this may offend you and rub you the wrong way, but I'm feeling the need to say it.
GET A LIFE AMERICA!
I have spent my entire life listening to everyone here tell me that America is the greatest country in the world, like it's a sports team and our rivals should burn in a fiery pit of hell. I believed it for awhile, but as I got older and started paying attention to what was happening around me, I found I disagreed. I don't agree that we are the best... anymore. We're selfish and arrogant and filled with demands for other countries that don't want/need our help.
We boss everyone else around when we won't even help feed our own hungry, we won't be completely fair to women and "minorities," and we refuse to make sure that minimum wage *actually* covers the needs of our workers. We care more about left and right battles than actually helping our sick and making sure they can afford their bills. We run our workers into the ground, make them lose their jobs, and then completely ignore them because they're too "lazy to get a job" or just "take a job that makes less than you were making" because "hey, at least it's a job!"
We tax the shit out of the people that make less, and allow the top 10% of the country to pocket the rest and avoid paying taxes. We allow politicians to cry their position into law and the penalize the ones that actually stand up for Americans and their real needs. We turn our backs on the people who risk our lives for us because Britney Spears is having a breakdown again and Bristol Palin is pregnant with her third child.
So I'm tired of it and I think this country should go to hell. We are *not* better than every other country and until we can practice what we preach, then we are going to have to deal with that and accept it. Stop licking your non-existent wounds people! When other countries laugh at us, it's because we have put them in a position to be able to!
GET A LIFE AMERICA!
I have spent my entire life listening to everyone here tell me that America is the greatest country in the world, like it's a sports team and our rivals should burn in a fiery pit of hell. I believed it for awhile, but as I got older and started paying attention to what was happening around me, I found I disagreed. I don't agree that we are the best... anymore. We're selfish and arrogant and filled with demands for other countries that don't want/need our help.
We boss everyone else around when we won't even help feed our own hungry, we won't be completely fair to women and "minorities," and we refuse to make sure that minimum wage *actually* covers the needs of our workers. We care more about left and right battles than actually helping our sick and making sure they can afford their bills. We run our workers into the ground, make them lose their jobs, and then completely ignore them because they're too "lazy to get a job" or just "take a job that makes less than you were making" because "hey, at least it's a job!"
We tax the shit out of the people that make less, and allow the top 10% of the country to pocket the rest and avoid paying taxes. We allow politicians to cry their position into law and the penalize the ones that actually stand up for Americans and their real needs. We turn our backs on the people who risk our lives for us because Britney Spears is having a breakdown again and Bristol Palin is pregnant with her third child.
So I'm tired of it and I think this country should go to hell. We are *not* better than every other country and until we can practice what we preach, then we are going to have to deal with that and accept it. Stop licking your non-existent wounds people! When other countries laugh at us, it's because we have put them in a position to be able to!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Birth Control Doesn't Work For Me
I know I am not the only one that goes through this, but birth control, of any form, does not work well with my mental state. I have tried several different kinds, low doses, regular, all kinds - and they all do the same thing to me! I get very depressed, sad, unhappy, uncomfortable, and mentally feel as though I'm being forced to share my body with my boyfriend (i.e. I don't want to be touched, be sexual, or be lovey dovey).
Recently, I gave it another go... you know, to see if I was crazy and it was all in my head. No... no it's not. I feel worse this time! It's one of the worst feelings, and I imagine as close to post partum you can get to without actually having children. Do you know what bothers me the most about this whole thing though? Bothers me more than all of my emotional stress? Being made to feel as though I am being a child, it really isn't affecting me the way I say it is, and that I should just deal with it.
It is like when male celebrities decide to claim that women who go through emotional trauma after pregnancy are just being horrible mothers and babies. I support you ladies... I support you, I feel for you, and you're not alone.
Neither are the women that have problems with birth control pills. Ugh!
Recently, I gave it another go... you know, to see if I was crazy and it was all in my head. No... no it's not. I feel worse this time! It's one of the worst feelings, and I imagine as close to post partum you can get to without actually having children. Do you know what bothers me the most about this whole thing though? Bothers me more than all of my emotional stress? Being made to feel as though I am being a child, it really isn't affecting me the way I say it is, and that I should just deal with it.
It is like when male celebrities decide to claim that women who go through emotional trauma after pregnancy are just being horrible mothers and babies. I support you ladies... I support you, I feel for you, and you're not alone.
Neither are the women that have problems with birth control pills. Ugh!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Hating Your Job
It is understandable that many people hate their jobs these days. It is understandable that no one likes going to a job where you are disrespected and treated like you are less than you are by your co-workers and the customers that come into your place of employment.
I get all of that.
I understand that frustration and where it comes from. I have a job like that myself.
What I don't understand and approve of is treating your customers like crap. Especially when they haven't done anything. I went to Kentucky Fried Chicken (no NOT to get that artery clogging joke of a meal that they're now offering) to get that mashed potato bowl they sell. It comes with a drink, and I ordered some more mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes. What can I say? So anyway, she repeated my order back to me and then asked if I wanted a drink with that. All I did was ask if the the mashed potato bowl comes with a drink and she replied with the crappiest tone ever.
Ma'am... yes... that's why I said Diet Pepsi.
I just started at the little screen thing for a minute and then chuckled to myself. You have to be kidding me? I know you hate your KFC job, but when someone is just making sure that the order comes out correctly, don't treat them like they're worthless. I just asked a simple question.
Meh.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Writer's Workshop: A Children's Program
In a deep desire to attempt to get my blog out there and to have more people come and read my random, left of center thoughts, I have decided to start getting in on Mama Kat's writer's workshops to have a little fun! If you haven't already looked into her blog, I would! She has one of the funniest personalities I have come across in a long time, and to top it off... she's having fun!
The prompt asked of a child's toy or television show around these days that I just don't understand. Since I am not a mommy (yet) and that is not in my near future, I have to admit that I haven't really been keeping up on kids toys and television shows that are out there. Don't get me wrong, I adore cartoons and probably always will, but once the newer shows like Drake & Josh, iCarly, Hannah Montana, and shows of that nature started becoming popular I started to get a little bored. I am partial to shows from my childhood (Pete & Pete, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Doug, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark, e.t.c.), but started finding shows like Spongebob Squarepants, Danny Phantom, All Grown Up, and shows like that cute. Of course they were no comparison to what I grew up with (let's face it, my generation is pretty awesome) but they were cute and "safer" for the new generation. At least they were safer until we all started paying attention to what they were offering.
Once Hannah Montana, Drake & Josh, iCarly, and other shows of that nature started being aired, I began noticing that these 11 - 13 year old children were being dressed up in adult clothing, dolled up in a lot of makeup, and being placed in very adult situations that are made to look cool, popular, and what "every little kid needs to experience to be able to become an adult." It started to bother me... a lot in fact. I know a 12 year old cheerleader (a sister of a friend of mine) that weighs about 70 pounds that constantly fasts because she's "too fat because her cheer leading coach said she's too big to be the girl tossed in the air." Of course that teacher did not tell her she was too fat, she just told her that she was too tall and had great muscles and that she was fabulous at being one of the guards. That's it...
Television shows these days, media, social interactions, and the way we promote independence to children these days is dangerous. It is very, very dangerous and filled with the message that it's cooler to be dumb so that you don't look like a nerd. It's extremely important to have Coach purses. Uggs, Prada, Chanel, iPhones, $100 t-shirts, and all of that garb at the ripe old age of 11. It's very important to come across popular and spend less time learning.
I'm concerned. I'm concerned and I'm hoping that parents are seeing this and are actively trying to make their children understand that it's alright to watch theses shows but to realize their flaws and lack of reality. I hope... I sincerely hope.
The prompt asked of a child's toy or television show around these days that I just don't understand. Since I am not a mommy (yet) and that is not in my near future, I have to admit that I haven't really been keeping up on kids toys and television shows that are out there. Don't get me wrong, I adore cartoons and probably always will, but once the newer shows like Drake & Josh, iCarly, Hannah Montana, and shows of that nature started becoming popular I started to get a little bored. I am partial to shows from my childhood (Pete & Pete, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Doug, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark, e.t.c.), but started finding shows like Spongebob Squarepants, Danny Phantom, All Grown Up, and shows like that cute. Of course they were no comparison to what I grew up with (let's face it, my generation is pretty awesome) but they were cute and "safer" for the new generation. At least they were safer until we all started paying attention to what they were offering.
Once Hannah Montana, Drake & Josh, iCarly, and other shows of that nature started being aired, I began noticing that these 11 - 13 year old children were being dressed up in adult clothing, dolled up in a lot of makeup, and being placed in very adult situations that are made to look cool, popular, and what "every little kid needs to experience to be able to become an adult." It started to bother me... a lot in fact. I know a 12 year old cheerleader (a sister of a friend of mine) that weighs about 70 pounds that constantly fasts because she's "too fat because her cheer leading coach said she's too big to be the girl tossed in the air." Of course that teacher did not tell her she was too fat, she just told her that she was too tall and had great muscles and that she was fabulous at being one of the guards. That's it...
Television shows these days, media, social interactions, and the way we promote independence to children these days is dangerous. It is very, very dangerous and filled with the message that it's cooler to be dumb so that you don't look like a nerd. It's extremely important to have Coach purses. Uggs, Prada, Chanel, iPhones, $100 t-shirts, and all of that garb at the ripe old age of 11. It's very important to come across popular and spend less time learning.
I'm concerned. I'm concerned and I'm hoping that parents are seeing this and are actively trying to make their children understand that it's alright to watch theses shows but to realize their flaws and lack of reality. I hope... I sincerely hope.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Photojournalism - School Post 6 of 6
My last photo for this class for the semester is a shameless self promotion. I, Lauren Cunningham, also someone who really, really enjoys photojournalism and what comes with it. I usually take photos of the world as it's happening around me, and am in the market for a much better camera. I recently went with my boyfriend to Woodward Park for the annual spring flower picture taking event and wound up getting some fabulous shots.
The flowers were in a fabulous bloom and I couldn't resist. Afterall... they're roses. :) I was also able to get some other pictures as well.
You can check out more of my stuff... if you're so inclined... at http://ionlover.deviantart.com where I keep more of my work.
The flowers were in a fabulous bloom and I couldn't resist. Afterall... they're roses. :) I was also able to get some other pictures as well.
You can check out more of my stuff... if you're so inclined... at http://ionlover.deviantart.com where I keep more of my work.
Photojournalism - School 5 of 6
Ken McCray from Florida showcases events that have stories behind them... meaningful stories. Maybe you will look at his work and wonder what in the world was happening at the exact moment that would have spurred that type of response, or maybe you just might look at the photo and smile. His work shows people in real life situations, as they're living them.
Did he see something scary or horrifying? Was he just told news that was hard on his psyche? Did he just want to show the world how big he could open his mouth? We don't know... and Ken likes it that way.
You can see more of his work here: http://www.bludomainhosting.com/ken/
Did he see something scary or horrifying? Was he just told news that was hard on his psyche? Did he just want to show the world how big he could open his mouth? We don't know... and Ken likes it that way.
You can see more of his work here: http://www.bludomainhosting.com/ken/
Photojournalism - School 4 of 6
Rebekah Workman is also based out of the Oklahoma area and is well known for her photography styles for weddings, engagement photos, and other life events. She is another person who doesn't necessarily dabble in the media driven events, but chooses to moreso pay attention to what's happening around her in the here and now. She has gained the ability to charge a hefty price for her work, but her style shows she deserves it.
You can see more of her work here: http://www.rebekahworkmanphoto.com/
You can see more of her work here: http://www.rebekahworkmanphoto.com/
Photojournalism - School 3 of 6
Amanda Ridgley is a fantastic photographer right here in the Tulsa area who is a fresh face to the scene of photo-journalistic sense. She currently specializes in people (weddings, events, life...) and has a natural eye for what she is doing. With several engagement photos under her belt, a couple of weddings, and family events, she is shaping up to be the next big thing around town.
Mary and Lance are getting married soon and they asked Amanda to be their photographer for their engagement photos, and what a choice they made! Amanda has a real ability to pull in colors from all over the scene and make the main visual really stand out.
You can see more of what she has to offer at: http://www.aridgley.com
Mary and Lance are getting married soon and they asked Amanda to be their photographer for their engagement photos, and what a choice they made! Amanda has a real ability to pull in colors from all over the scene and make the main visual really stand out.
You can see more of what she has to offer at: http://www.aridgley.com
Photojournalism - School Post 2 of 6
There are photojournalists that focus on news media and exploring the realm of journalism through travel and socials situations, and then there are photojournalists that dabble in the world of visual reporting on everyday life. Connecticut is home to one of these journalists that showcases that world as it's happening.
Sports can be fantastic photo-journalistic opportunities, as you can see here with Mike Ross' photo of a woman's basketball game. The human body is impressive with the way that it moves and Ross has a certain way to capture scenes and situations happening in a very beautiful light. Going to his main page you can see amazing imagery of weddings, children, scenes, and life as it's happening.
See his website here:
http://www.mikerossphoto.com/
Sports can be fantastic photo-journalistic opportunities, as you can see here with Mike Ross' photo of a woman's basketball game. The human body is impressive with the way that it moves and Ross has a certain way to capture scenes and situations happening in a very beautiful light. Going to his main page you can see amazing imagery of weddings, children, scenes, and life as it's happening.
See his website here:
http://www.mikerossphoto.com/
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